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Adam Newell
Exploding off the page with over 1,000 of the best examples of exploitation, grindhouse, and pulp film poster design comes The Art of the B-Movie Poster, a collection of incredible…
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Pete Adams
1969: the East End of London. Dark days where rival gangs and the IRA vie for supremacy.
What can the darkness take from you?
Love - perhaps the most precious…
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Existence is about survival.
A continually bullied runt of a youngster, Chas Larkin discovers his chutzpah and decides to take on the London gangs.
In the sleazy and violent East…
All five books in 'Kind Hearts And Martinets', a series of mystery novels by Pete Adams, now available in one volume!
Cause And Effect: Meet Detective Inspector Jack Austin, a…
Ghost and Ragman Roll is Book 4 in the bestselling Kind Hearts and Martinets crime series, featuring the eponymous Portsmouth detective DCI Jack (Jane) Austin.
Ancient conspiracies and modern-day crimes collide in Pete Adams's 'Choir Of Assassins'. When the seventh officer of Hegemon is assassinated in the Temple Round Church, the body is taken under…
All three books in 'DaDa Detective Agency', a series of mystery novels by Pete Adams, now in one volume!
Road Kill: In the genteel, upper middle-class community of Southsea, Portsmouth…
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Heads roll. Corpses dance. People will believe what they want to believe.
After Sister Winfrede, leader of the second violins in the famous Nun’s Orchestra in Portsmouth, is found decapitated…
Cataclysmic events have occurred in the decorous upper middle class enclave within Southsea, Portsmouth, on the south coast of England.
But what were the circumstances that contributed to this violent…
Travelling home from London after dancing the Rite of Spring in Trafalgar Square with Sister Winifrede, Jack (nicknamed Jane) Austin and Mandy have a phone conversation with Jack's recently discovered…
A self-labeled enigma, Detective Inspector Jack Austin is at once miserable and amusing, melancholy and motivated. Running the Community Police Unit from his deck chair, D.I. Austin is known for…
A Defense Secretary shooting. The collapse of the Home Office Secretary. London’s high-ranking civil servants are being targeted, and DCI Jack Austin is drawn out of retirement.
When his wife…
The American Buffalo is strong, defensive, and smart. Buffaloes are not cared for like cattle, they are wild and free. This freedom comes with responsibilities to care for and protect…
His French honeymoon continually interrupted by a series of misdeeds, DCI Jack Austin returns to Portsmouth to find the missing link.
When an ambitious new detective infringes on his territory…
Recuperating from his past mission, disturbed but driven D.I. Jack Austin returns to work amid a personality clash with a retired colonel - who happens to be his new Chief…